In April, the UFC will go to trial over their antitrust business practices. Names such as Cung Le have bankrolled a decade-long lawsuit, alleging that the company bought out competitors, while also driving down fighter pay. In the last few months, the case has had a lot of activity, and the two sides are finally set to go to trial.
Throughout this trial, a lot of private conversations from names such as Dana White have been released. Earlier this month, text messages between the promoter and Lorenzo Fertitta from 2014 were released. In private, the two dubbed Jon Jones a “scumbag” and “punk”. It seems that Daniel Cormier understands their assessment.
“Some of his text messages were leaked in regards to Jon Jones. They were very mean text messages. Not nice. But I may have a little bit of a different view of this than most,” Daniel Cormier stated to Ben Askren on his YouTube channel earlier this week. “You and I both own businesses. We’ve all had bad employees. There’s different levels, right? In our business, it’s being late, maybe not showing up on time, mayb s about being at the fight, doing the promotion, being easier to work with.” (h/t MMA News)
e not always being tapped in to the practices. With Jones, it s about being at the fight, doing the promotion, being easier to work with.” (h/t MMA News)
It’s worth noting that Daniel Cormier failed to mention any of the other text messages relating to the suit. Beyond talk about Jon Jones, Dana White, and Lorenzo Fertitta privately mocked the likes of Nate Diaz and others. He believes that the bigger issue is that his rival was a bad employee.
“In those moments when you have an employee that isn’t working in the way that you think, you say stuff!” Daniel Cormier continued. “It’s like, you say things about an employee that isn’t doing the things that you want. Do you believe for a second that Dana didn’t say that to Jon’s face? There’s no way he didn’t! He told him the exact same thing to his face. Then he goes and he talks to his friend, who is also his business partner, about the situation and says the exact same thing. Is it really that big a deal? Some of the stuff I’ve said to other people about people that work for me, it’s kinda crazy!”
Just hours after Daniel Cormier’s comments, Jon Jones responded. In two posts on X, ‘Bones’ indicated that his rival must still have issues with him due to their fights in the cage. Jones famously handed two losses in the octagon, although his 2017 knockout win was overturned due to a failed drug test.
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Bad employee or not he still beat your ass twice DC
Sometimes, there are two people who are just not compatible. Even a compliment comes across as an insult when they say it to each other.
Jones and Cormier are those two people.
People love a fuck up who wins. They love a person who is horrible, irresponsible, reckless, does not take things seriously, a person who does not give a shit and then still comes in and wins.
That’s why everyone loves Nick Diaz. Remember, Mickey? Brad Pitt’s character from Snatch? That’s why that character is liked.
People love a rebel, a free spirit, again, who WINS.
Dan is a straight shooter, responsible, disciplined, organised, ordered, a good team mate, a good family man, a good employee. He makes people feel like shit.
It’s because he steps out of the “screen” and makes people realize that they need to do better. Jones makes people feel great, because he makes them forget about their lives.
And Dan lost to Jones, and he cannot take that. He probably feels like something is off in the universe, that an undeserving “scum” bested him.
Jones definitely has one more scandal in him before he goes away
“Come on DC, you fucking goof, they’re contractors!”
– Dana
Employee of the month in my books when he head kick KOed that whiner DC
“Never let a “bad employee” beat you up and take everything from you twice. It’ll leave you bitter for a really long time evidently ” Jon Jones posted to X earlier today. “No [that wasn’t to Dana], that was to DC”
He’ll never let those bragging rights go will he!
That’s all his peanut brain can ever come up with…“I bEaT yOu TwIcE!!!”. Do you brag to your “fiancé” about beating her up too, Jon?
I hear employee a lot. This will definitely help with the anti trust lawsuit
Just to correct DC, there was never no employee
thats true , contracted worker bee